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-- Library Journal, 7/9/2009

The University of Maryland has appointed a new dean of university libraries: Patricia A. Steele, "a national leader in the Google Project and other efforts to digitize collections creating wider access to universities' information resources," according to the university. Steele currently directs the libraries at Indiana University Bloomington. In addition, she has served as a member of Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), helped co-found the HathiTrust, and was a founding board member of CLOCKSS. Steele follows Association of Research Libraries' executive director Charles Lowry as dean, and starts at Maryland on September 1.
 
Dominican University has recently announced its newly founded PhD program, appointing Tonyia J. Tidline as director of its new Doctorate of Philosophy in Library and Information Science program. The Doctorate of Philosophy in Library and Information Science, to be administered through the university’s nationally recognized Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS), will accept its first cohort of students during the fall 2009 semester. Tidline is also serving as an associate professor in the graduate school.
 
Dominican has also appointed Thomas Barthelmess, president of the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), as lecturer in the GSLIS and curator of the new Butler Children’s Literature Center. The Butler Children’s Literature Center was established in 2009 by the GSLIS, the School of Education and the Rebecca Crown Library. The center, which boasts an exemplary collection of children’s and young adult literature, serves as a resource for graduate library students, professional librarians, area teachers and parents.

Verne Oleksowicz is retiring July 31, 2009 after serving Great River Regional Library in Central Minnesota since 1982. He became the region’s Deputy Director in 1987, a capacity he maintained under four directors. He has been active in the Minnesota Library Association (MLA). In his early years he served MLA as co-chair of the mobile services round table. He was vice-chair of the MLA Legislative Committee in 2006 and chaired the committee in 2007. In 2008, as past MLA legislative chair, he served as Minnesota's state coordinator of ALA's National Library Legislative Day.

Chia-Wen Tsai (Ming Chuan University, Taiwan) is the winner of IGI Global’s first annual Library Technology Excellence Award in honor of his outstanding achievement and commendable effort to promote the use of library technologies in the academic setting, as outlined in his paper, “Enhancing Computing Skills of Low-Achieving Students via Online Learning: Web-Based Teaching Methods Involving Problem-Based Learning and Self-Regulated Learning.” The annual award is based on a paper submission that outlines key issues involved in the understanding and promotion of any innovative technological programs or systems that have proven critical to the successful integration, implementation, and diffusion of e-resources within the academic library community.

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